Appeal No. 96-3124
Application 08/265,585
message is faulty and discards all messages received from that
computer if determined to be faulty. As disclosed in column
12, lines 45-50, the error message includes an error type
code. However, this code only identifies which of the fault
detection checks found in column 10, lines 29-46, determined a
fault.
Even if we could view the fault detection check, number
4, as a power failure determination and that the fault handler
204 broadcasted a power failure message, we fail to find that
Whiteside teaches checking the recordation of the received
power failure message and if the recordation is found sending
a cautious message as recited in claim 3 or a regroup message
as recited in claim 6 indicating receipt of a power-fail
message. In contrast, upon receipt of the error message,
Whiteside teaches that each computer decides on whether to
discard the messages from the faulty computer. Whiteside does
not teach method steps of checking for a recordation of a
message and then sending a message if a recordation is found.
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